Modern Living: Grape Expectations

They may lack the grandeur of a Romanee-Conti '59 at $200 a bottle or
the finesse of a Chateau Lafite Rothschild '61 (a mere $135). Yet the
new California wines now arriving on the market are the best available
in quantity. "For the first time in this or any other
country," says a California wine-industry consultant, Louis R.
Gomberg, "there is going to be a tremendous abundance of
high-quality grapes. The consumer will harvest a wine-crop bounty the
like of which has never before been seen."